This video is called Navy Sonar & Whales.
First, a humpback whale beached on Noorderhaaks desert island in the Netherlands.
A few days later, a dead sperm whale stranded on the same island.
There has been a lot of attention to attempts to save the humpback’s life, which ultimately did not succeed.
Another issue: why did these two whales beach so soon after each other, on the same island?
On his blog, Arjan Berkhuysen, director of the Wadden sea conservation organisation, discusses this question.
He writes that shortly before the beachings, there were NATO war games in the Wadden sea region. Military planes broke the sound barrier. The sound of these war games may have disoriented the whales. Like navy sonar causes whale deaths.
There is still no scientific consensus on why humpback Johanna and the sperm whale beached on Noorderhaaks.
Dutch humpback map: here.
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There’s good logic to this theory I think. I’ve also wondered if seismic activity under the oceans may contribute to beachings.
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Yes, seismic searching by oil corporations may play a role as well.
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Reblogged this on MisBehaved Woman.
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strange as it seems there may beequivalent sound polution below water surface as there is above land surfaces many creatures may find electro-magnetic and radio polution disorienting as well
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Yes, there is about military sonar, whales and dolphins on this blog:
https://dearkitty1.wordpress.com/?s=sonar+&submit=Search
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Thanks for the search and links. I have an additional theory about whale hunters using sonic nets, and percussive traps. Percussions and electricity have been used by freshwater fisherman. Variations may be in use, with much less or no evidence left behind. Just some ideas that occured to me when I read about sonar and whales near Hawaii, and i tried to iamagine being there, and then I read that Japan is back whale hunting already, post tsunami, 7 months ago. Sorry, I do not still have the reference links. As far as I know, my idea is only that.—–Granny
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There is a big scandal in Japan, as money meant for tsunami/Fukushima victims went to whaling instead:
https://dearkitty1.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/japanese-government-spends-disaster-money-on-whaling/
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Very interesting…food for thought!
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I hope there will be more research on why these whales died.
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It would be good to get some answers, it is very strange. There is probably much that we are never meant to hear about!
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Yes, military affairs are often “state secrets”.
United States military abuse of bears in the 1950s only came to light recently:
https://dearkitty1.wordpress.com/2012/12/22/united-states-military-bear-abuse/
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